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http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationBlogEngine.NET 3.1.1.0en-UShttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/opml.axdhttp://www.dotnetblogengine.net/syndication.axdBusiness Software SolutionsBusiness Software Solutions0.0000000.000000Configure Red or Bold Accent Printing<p>BPA Restaurant Professional and Delivery Professional have the option to print modifiers on the kitchen ticket in red or bold. The red printing functionality does require a compatible two-color printer. Printers that have been tested to support this functionality include the Epson TM-U220, Citizen CT-S501, and the newest version of the BPAPOS dot matrix printer. If you have one of these supported printers, follow this guide to configure color accent printing.</p> <p>&#160;</p> <h2>Configuring Accent Printing</h2> <p>1) Go to <b>Restaurant System &gt; Manager Functions &gt; Misc Definitions</b></p> <p>2) Select <b>Printers &amp; Devices</b> on the left side</p> <p>3) Click the <b>Advanced Printer Options</b> button</p> <p>4) Click the button, <b>Configure Kitchen Accents</b></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=image_51.png"><img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="image" src="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=image_thumb_51.png" width="628" height="388" /></a></strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p>5) Select whether you would like to use the Red or Bold accent or both.</p> <p>6) You may select which modifiers you would like to printing using the accent setting by placing a “<strong>Y</strong>” next to the list. You may choose to print any side list, custom side list, cooking instructions, special notes, mixing modifiers, or toppings list using these accent settings.</p>http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/07/11/Configure-Red-or-Bold-Accent-Printing
http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/07/11/Configure-Red-or-Bold-Accent-Printing#disqus_threadhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post.aspx?id=555dad1e-a922-4ade-9a66-9cc907580cf3Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:36:22 -0700Delivery POS UpdatesDelivery POS SoftwareRestaurant POS UpdatesRestaurant POS SoftwareKitchen PrintingRed Printingadminhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/pingback.axdhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post.aspx?id=555dad1e-a922-4ade-9a66-9cc907580cf30http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/trackback.axd?id=555dad1e-a922-4ade-9a66-9cc907580cf3http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/07/11/Configure-Red-or-Bold-Accent-Printing#disqus_threadhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/syndication.axd?post=555dad1e-a922-4ade-9a66-9cc907580cf3Benefits of Using a Modern Point Of Sale System<p><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you are looking for a great way to improve your business operations and to boost functionality and efficiency, the clear solution is to invest in a modern point of sale system. There are </span><a style="line-height: 1.15; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.businessoftware.com/"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">customized POS system solutions</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> available for many types of business environments. For example, some are designed for use in a restaurant or food services environment while others have features and benefits that are better suited for use in a retail environment. Because of the variations in these systems, the benefits that you may enjoy by using them will vary from system to system. However, there are some general advantages that you will have access to with most of these systems. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" src="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=%2f2014%2f05%2fbussinesssoftwaresolutions-sys_droid.jpg" alt="" align="right" />The main purpose of a POS system is to help you and your employees facilitate sales transactions, so they can speed up sales processing while also helping you to track sales and inventory. Some provide you with the opportunity to generate detailed, customized reports. They can be used to help you better determine when you need to order more supplies for your restaurant or more products to stock your store shelves with. Many of today's advanced point of sale systems also have an employee log in feature. They may be designed to allow employees to punch in a code to log their hours, or they may give employees the ability to swipe a card when logging in. This makes it easier for employees to honestly track hours, and it can facilitate the payroll processing task in your company. In addition, some highly advanced systems have a tablet-style feature that can be used in restaurant environments. These give waitstaff the ability to instantly input orders into the system while standing at tables and for the kitchen to quickly begin working on orders. This means customers will get their orders more quickly, and your restaurant can serve customers more efficiently for maximum profitability. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-mark="1">These are only a few of the benefits associated with using a POS system. By reviewing some of the more advanced point of sale systems available to choose from, you can learn more about how you can take advantage of the benefits they provide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span></p>http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/05/22/Benefits-of-Using-a-Modern-Point-Of-Sale-System
http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/05/22/Benefits-of-Using-a-Modern-Point-Of-Sale-System#disqus_threadhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post.aspx?id=21330c15-3cfe-4440-91de-1c1f1d8eacd7Thu, 22 May 2014 11:24:00 -0700Android POS SystemsHotel SystemsRestaurant POS SoftwareDelivery POS SoftwareDelivery POS SystemsAdminhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/pingback.axdhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post.aspx?id=21330c15-3cfe-4440-91de-1c1f1d8eacd70http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/trackback.axd?id=21330c15-3cfe-4440-91de-1c1f1d8eacd7http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/05/22/Benefits-of-Using-a-Modern-Point-Of-Sale-System#disqus_threadhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/syndication.axd?post=21330c15-3cfe-4440-91de-1c1f1d8eacd7Changes to Restaurant Gratuity | Business Software Solutions<p>The IRS has recently mandated changes to the way restaurants treat auto gratuity. For payroll purposes auto gratuity must be treated as a service charge. This means they must be tracked separately and are no longer considered eligible for a social security deduction. As a result of these changes we have introduced a number of changes to the way the BPA software tracks and reports gratuity and auto gratuity.</p>
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<h2>Claim Tips at Clockout</h2>
<p>If the option is enabled for your server to claim tips when they clock out, you will notice some significant changes to the clock out screen. Gratuity and sales are now broken out into three separate groups.</p>
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<table style="width: 643px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
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<td valign="top" width="146">Auto Gratuity:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">This box reports any auto gratuity that was recorded on the closed sales.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Charged Sales:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">This box shows any sales that were closed with a tip with a payment method of credit card, gift card, or placed on account.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Charged Tips:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">This field reports any tips left on a sale that was closed with a credit card, gift card, or placed on account.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Tip % of Charged Sales:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">This percentage is automatically calculated based on the charged sales and charged tip amounts.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Other Sales:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">Other Sales includes sales that were closed with auto gratuity or items that are marked to be excluded from gratuity. Because auto gratuity is not treated as a tip and is considered as wages, tips do not need to be claimed on this sales amount.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Cash Tippable Sales:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">This field includes cash sales as well as any charged sales on which no tip was added. If no tip was added to a charged sale the system assumes the patron left a cash tip. There is an option to exclude dine out orders from this total which will be discussed later.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Tip %:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">This field allows you to claim a percentage or your cash sales as tips. You may change this percentage by entering the percentage on the keypad on the left and then selecting Load Value.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Cash Tips:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">Cash Tips is the amount of cash tips that you are claiming. This amount may be calculated by entering the percentage above or you may adjust this amount by entering the tip amount on the keypad on the left and then selecting Load Value.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="146">Declared:</td>
<td valign="top" width="495">The declared field contains the amount of charge and cash tips claimed.</td>
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</table>
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<h2>Gratuity and Payroll Options</h2>
<p>The Misc. Definitions screen contains several new options that effect the way the software handles gratuity. To get to this screen, go to Restaurant System &gt; Manager Functions &gt; Misc Definitions.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=image_49.png"><img style="background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=image_thumb_49.png" alt="image" width="496" height="360" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p>If you select the Gratuity option on the left side, you will notice several new options. First, you may choose to exclude dine out sales from gratuity and the tippable sales amount. If the majority of your dine out sales are pickup orders or you have an employee that handles dine out orders that is not paid a server&rsquo;s hourly rate, you may want to check this option.</p>
<p>You may also choose whether to pay out auto gratuity and charged tips at shift end or with payroll. If these options are set to pay at shifts end, the system assumes you will be paying out tips to the server from the cash drawer. If they are set to pay out at payroll, the system will report these tips to pay at payroll on the Daily Sales and Tips Report and the Time Clock Report. If you are using the BPA payroll module these tips will also be included in the payroll check.</p>
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<h2>Reporting - Daily Sales and Tips Report and Time Clock Report</h2>
<p>The Server Tips Summary section of the daily sales and tips report has been updated to show the changes outlined above. Payroll tips and tips paid at shift end are simply broken out so servers and managers may easily identify these amounts. The time clock report reflects these same changes making payroll reporting a simple process.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=image_50.png"><img style="background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;" title="image" src="http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/image.axd?picture=image_thumb_50.png" alt="image" width="466" height="327" border="0" /></a></p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="ftp://ftp.businessoftware.com/rest/update-82pci.exe" target="_blank">Download Restaurant Professional Update</a></p>
<p><a href="ftp://ftp.businessoftware.com/pizza/update-82pci.exe" target="_blank">Download Delivery Professional Update</a></p>
<p>Please note that updates must be applied to each computer running the BPA software. For assistance updating please call (801)336-3303 between the hours of 8:30am-5:00pm MST Mon-Fri.</p>
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<p>IRS Bulletin 2012-26 Outlining Changes to Gratuity</p>
<p><a title="http://www.irs.gov/irb/2012-26_IRB/ar07.html" href="http://www.irs.gov/irb/2012-26_IRB/ar07.html">http://www.irs.gov/irb/2012-26_IRB/ar07.html</a></p>http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/02/04/Changes-to-Gratuity
http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/02/04/Changes-to-Gratuity#disqus_threadhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post.aspx?id=1ccbeacb-880a-4faf-ab8d-94c78deed38aTue, 04 Feb 2014 11:27:00 -0700Restaurant POS SoftwareDelivery POS SoftwareDelivery POS UpdatesRestaurant PayrollRestaurant POS UpdatesTipsGratuityPayrollAdminhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/pingback.axdhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post.aspx?id=1ccbeacb-880a-4faf-ab8d-94c78deed38a0http://www.businessoftware.com/blog/trackback.axd?id=1ccbeacb-880a-4faf-ab8d-94c78deed38ahttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/post/2014/02/04/Changes-to-Gratuity#disqus_threadhttp://www.businessoftware.com/blog/syndication.axd?post=1ccbeacb-880a-4faf-ab8d-94c78deed38a